What is Alt-Jpop? Interview with Antonio Vázquez
Theresa: Antonio, how are you? Antonio: Great, feeling great because my life has changed. How come? Passing through a new artistic muse. I have a new vision in music, it makes me full of love. I have started a new project called Alt-Jpop, it is a departure of my "Avant"/Noise phase. I have grown up and now I'm mature enough to be true to myself. Alt-Jpop is about truth, the truth of the beauty of the beat and collaboration. Alt-Jpop celebrates the artistic beauty of forgotten artists, but this doesn't have to do with lesser known artists, this includes famous people too, everybody has a hidden artistic vision. SOPHIE makes this clear in one of her recent interviews "Experimental Music isn't really experimental", I felt the same as her when I was exposed to this "avant" scene, I was emotionally exhausted, Socially Isolated, unemployed, I was depressed and disappointed, I lived a life full of poverty of the soul but now I feel vitalit